May 2009
4 posts
The Mundanities of a Seminal Art Movement: Comics...
When I was a kid, reading and enjoying superhero comics, before Watchmen changed team superhero books forever, things were a little different. Up until then, the only superheroes who had a private life were grown-ups with boring jobs, and the only superhero with an inner monologue was Ghost Rider, (slumped in a grave yard, with endless thought-bubbles going on about how much of a pain in the...
Media Immersion Addiction: All Things in...
Apparently it’s possible to have too much of a good thing. This is what I hear anyway. People say it all the time, as if it’s a universally acknowledged truth, without the possibility of question or contradiction. I disagree. Bollocks to that. I say, if you like something, dive right in, up to yer damn neck. Revel in it, immerse yourself, enjoy it. The first time I consciously...
Hair in comics, science fiction, cartoons, and...
I notice haircuts. In itself this isn’t unusual, but it’s where and when I notice them that’s made people remark on this. I’ve been told that there are people who can tell how far along in a season an episode of the original Star Trek is, by gauging how overweight Captain Kirk is. Apparently further into the season, his girdle would appear, as he started to outgrow his...
Logo Design: The Intoxicating Allure of the...
As a designer, I know how much fun the concept stage of designing is. This is the point when no ideas are bad, all designs can be entertained and explored, all roads travelled. There’s an unrestrained freedom to this early part of the logo development process, [I like it so much that I initially wrote “love” instead of logo just then], a playfulness that prevails at this...
